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		<h1>Open Scriptures</h1>
		<p><del>The ingredients for this project are being gathered; it has not yet started cooking.</del>
		<ins>This past week has been very productive and exciting; the initial application built on the Open Scriptures architecture has been released: the <a href="/prototypes/manuscript-comparator/">Manuscript Comparator</a>. See <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/open-scriptures/browse_thread/thread/e0810ae83507214a" title="Preview of Manuscript Comparator Prototype ">the announcement</a>,</ins>
		and the <a href="/schemagraph.svg">schemagraph of the database</a> for a view into what's going on. This project is being <a href="http://bibletechconference.com/speakers.htm#WestonRuter-2009">presented</a> at <a href="http://bibletechconference.com/">BibleTech:2009</a>&hellip;</p>
		
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			<p>Open Scriptures seeks to be a comprehensive open-source Web repository for integrated scriptural data and a general application framework for building internationalized social applications of scripture. An abundance of scriptural resources are now available online—manuscripts, translations, and annotations are all being made available by students and scholars alike at an ever-increasing rate. These diverse scriptural resources, however, are isolated from each other and fragmented across the Internet. Thus mashing up the available data into new scriptural applications is not currently possible for the community at large because the resources' interrelationships are not systematically documented. Open Scriptures aims to establish a scriptural database for interlinked textual resources such as merged manuscripts, the differences among them, and the links between their semantic units and the semantic units of their translations. With such a foundation in place, derived scriptural data like cross-references may be stored in a translation-neutral and internationalized manner so as to be accessible to the community no matter what language they speak or version they prefer.</p>
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		<p>Source code <a href="http://code.google.com/p/open-scriptures/">available on Google Code</a> under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GPL 3.0 license</a>.
		Discuss this project on its <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/open-scriptures">Google Group</a>.
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			<a href="http://weston.ruter.net/">Weston Ruter</a><br>
			January 2009
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